Shibden Park Reviews Summary

Category: Park

Address: Godley Ln, Halifax, HX3 6XG, United Kingdom

Phone: +441422288001

Rating: 4.6
based on 421 reviews.

Park and Grounds

Pros:

  • "Great family Park nestled in a valley on the edge of Halifax."
  • "The park and surrounding areas are absolutely fantastic with children's play ground and boating lake."
  • "Stunning grounds with lots to do, miniature railway, boats on the lake, land train, feed the ducks or a quiet stroll through the Victorian grounds and woodland."
  • "One of my favourite parks to visit. Grounds are immaculate and well kept."
  • "The park is nice and it's genuinely clean, and well kept."
  • "Beautiful park with lots to do for children."
  • "Gorgeous park with lots to offer."

Cons:

  • "The park has gone down hill a little, the zip wire was broken."
  • "Everywhere is tired, in need of some TLC, a coat of paint, or completely replacing."
  • "The park is a bit run down but still plenty of use for kids to play!"
  • "The playground in the park has not had any investment since it was given a makeover at the start of the 2000s."
  • "A nice park, but the zip wire never works and the boats are never open."
  • "The only thing that lets it down is that you cannot see the big playground from the small one."
  • "One of the yellow entrance gates into the playground is completely missing."

Cafe and Food

Pros:

  • "Good cafe facilities."
  • "Great cafe sells the best coffee."
  • "Had lunch in the cafe - delicious and large portions."
  • "The cafe is nice and has a selection of food and drinks."
  • "An amazing cafe that is also dog friendly for well behaved buddies."
  • "The Cafe is really good and the parking charges are cheap."
  • "A very nice cafe serving hot meals, snacks and drinks."

Cons:

  • "Very nice, bring a picnic as the cafe is a little expensive."
  • "The cafe avoid like the plague! Food is utter rubbish for the price along with the coffee."
  • "The cafe is expensive so take a picnic."
  • "Ridiculously expensive to the point where its laughable."
  • "The hot drinks were slightly cold in the cafe."
  • "Bit expensive-food drinks-disappointed no real cake to buy-just flapjack and brownies-was just ok."
  • "On a down side a regular hot drink is £3 plus."

Parking and Accessibility

Pros:

  • "Parking is ample and reasonably priced too."
  • "Parking is £1.50 for the day."
  • "Car parking is reasonable too; a number of car parks, some of which are very busy, and others are somewhat quiet."
  • "Finally, there is lots of parking at various points around the park and is on a pay and display basis and not unreasonably priced."
  • "Parking available on site at a small cost."
  • "Great for kids, very cheap to park the car, £1.50 for more than 2 hours."
  • "Parking is plentiful and cheap."

Cons:

  • "Parking area seems small for a place of this size, maybe there are others which are not publicised."
  • "All the disabled parking bays in the car park by the cafe were all blocked off."
  • "The online parking is a nightmare due to lack of phone signal in the valley."
  • "We got a £50 parking fine, which we will protest about, but the app was very difficult on a sunny day."
  • "The café area is not very good for people with disabilities and mobility issues."
  • "The only downside is the toilets, none of them fit a pram in them."
  • "It's gravel underfoot do hard for mobility issues."

Facilities and Activities

Pros:

  • "They have paddling and rowing boats also which you can hire."
  • "Kids will enjoy their own hand pedal boats, it's a must if they are less than 10 years."
  • "Had a ride on the train exploring the grounds and a great experience on the boats rowing on the lake."
  • "The children enjoyed a go on the little single paddle boats."
  • "There are some great play areas for children with slides, swings, climbing and other safe rides."
  • "A very good playground with good equipment."
  • "They have a train ride around the park and a boating lake with a cafe for food and drinks and a play area with swings and slide etc and a little fairground with rides."

Cons:

  • "Unfortunately the toilets by the playgrounds was all locked up!"
  • "The cafe is modern and child-friendly."
  • "The only thing that I would say let me down was the cafe, waited in the queue only to see when I got to the front the staff (young girl) sneezing everywhere."
  • "The only thing that is a little disappointing is that the cafe closes early."
  • "At the boating lake you are charged per person for 30 mins, even at the seaside the price is per boat."
  • "The playground... public toilets here too. They were a bit smelly and not that clean but better than nothing."
  • "The play area has a few nasty people on so be careful and keep your eye on you little one."

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